Identity, Rights, and Awareness (eBook)

Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices

Jeremy A. Rinker (Autor)

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2018
240 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498541947 (ISBN)

Infos

Identity, Rights, and Awareness opens a much needed critical analysis of subaltern Dalit voice in India. Filling a lacuna in comparative analysis of the connections between anticaste social movement, communal identities, and marginalized voice, Jeremy Rinker’s book argues for the important role of narrative strategy in contending against oppressive systems.

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For over a decade, Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. has interacted, observed, and studied Dalit anti-caste social movements in India. In this critical comparative approach to India's modern anti-caste resistance, Dr. Rinker emphasizes the complex interdependence between narrative practices and social transformation in understanding the centuries old caste basis of India's most fundamental of social conflicts. Through the comparative case study of three modern social movement organizations, this book provides a fresh lens to both better understand and potentially transform caste marginalization and oppression. Through theoretical analysis, auto-ethnographic field notes, and narrative storytelling, Dr. Rinker brings the lived experience of modern Dalits to life for a Western reader unfamiliar with the entrenched nature of India's complex caste dynamics. The book is also written for anti-caste activists in that it endeavors to develop reflective practice insights into activists' own sense and use of narrative agency. A timely reappraisal of Indian anti-caste movement infighting and ideological discord, this book will be of interest to both students of South Asian caste and those that want to better understand injustice narration as an important means of structural change. With sharp analysis and insight Identity, Rights, and Awareness: Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices will be of interest to scholars of South Asian studies as well as activists working for conflict transformation and peace.

Autor

Jeremy A. Rinker is assistant professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Inhalt

Introduction: At the Center and in the Periphery1. Caste and Anti-Caste Identity: The Evolution and Legacy of Difference in Indian Social Life2. Narrative Violence and Injustice Awareness: Reading Anti-Caste Activism as Narrative for Social Change3. Doing Strategy in Indian Anti-Caste Activism: A Systems Approach to Understanding the Struggle for Identity, Rights, and Awareness4. Fostering Dalit Buddhist Identity: TBMSG’s Organizing around Ambedkar Buddhism5. All-India Rise Up: BAMCEF and Educating for a National Identity and Injustice Awareness6. Narrative Testimony as Rights Agitation: PVCHR’s International Rights DiscourseConclusion: Identity, Rights, and Awareness: The Power of Discourse to Change Entrenched Systems of OppressionEpilogue: The Making of Discursive Change Platforms and Writing from the Periphery as a Form of Resistance towards the Dominant Center

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Ambedkar • Anti-caste activism • Asian Studies • caste • Caste conflict resolution • Dalit • Dalit human rights • Dalit social movement • Human Rights • India • Indian caste system • Narrative agency • Narrative conflict transformation • resistance • Social Identity • Social/spiritual awareness • South Asia
• ISBN-13: 9781498541947 / 9781498541947